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Sunday Comics

Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. You can contact Owen Good, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page. Awkward…

By Owen Good Published July 31, 2011

CultureShop Contest

Photobombed Cosplay Winners

Last week we served up 13 of the most exploitable cosplay pics from at Comic-Con 2011 for you to corrupt even further. Many entered, only one will win! Who is it? OK, yeah, it’s that guy above. But see inside for the other 19 finalists! Gofunaki22 (5) kicks things off with a very topical entry.…

By Owen Good Published July 30, 2011

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This Week in the Business: “Social games are killer”

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week… QUOTE | “It comes down to Wii U.” – Panoptic Management Consultants Asif Khan describes Nintendo’s precipitous fall and how the future could hinge on Wii U QUOTE | “Really feel the heat from Vita.” – Nintendo’s sudden price reduction on 3DS may be…

James Brightman | IndustryGamers.com Published July 29, 2011

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Settle In With the Multi-Talented Art of Quentin Marmier

A lot of the time here on Fine Art, we feature the work of an artist who does one thing. They might do character art, or level design, that sort of thing. So it’s great today to showcase the work of Quentin Marmier. His work for Ubisoft includes all kinds of stuff, from colouring to…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2011

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Red Faction’s Art Is Now Buried Beneath the Dust

Despite the guilty pleasures of Red Faction: Guerilla, all it took was one sub-par game in the series (Red Faction: Armageddon) for publisher THQ to, at least temporarily, pull the plug on the series. Which is a damn shame. In memory of a franchise (or at least its contemporary revival) that lived too fast and…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 28, 2011

CultureTotal Recall

Remembering the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of MS-DOS

If you think messing around with the user-interface of a modern console, or even a modern iteration of Windows is hard, spare a thought for anyone involved in PC gaming during the 1980s and early 90s. Those hardy pioneers didn’t need icons, or dashboards. They used letters, and arcane commands, which were the bread and…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 28, 2011

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There’s a Half-Life On Viktor Antonov’s Video Game Art

Artist Viktor Antonov has worked on a number of high-profile projects over the years. He’s recently published his own book, The Colony. He’s helping on a live-action adaptation of classic manga (and anime film) Cobra. He also did some nice art for shelved (yet promising) multiplayer shooter The Crossing Oh yeah. And he was also…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 27, 2011

CultureTotal Recall

The Game That Really Was Out of This World

It was 1992. I was at my friend Paul’s house, playing games on his mighty 486 PC, and we’d just finished a complete playthrough of Monkey Island for probably the 100th time. Bored, he turns to me and says “Oh yeah, my brother got this new game. Let’s play that.” He fires it up, and…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 27, 2011

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This Concept Art Flies Right Into the Danger Zone

In 2008, publisher THQ shitcanned a project called Stormbirds, an aerial combat game that was looking to take on the likes of Ace Combat and HAWX While the game died, its surprisingly colourful art lives on, and today we’re looking at concept artist Stuart Jennett’s wonderful contributions. Jennett, formerly a comics artist with Marvel, is…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 26, 2011

CultureTotal Recall

An Outlaw to the End

Outlaws was the first FPS title to introduce a zoomed scope for a sniper rifle

By Luke Plunkett Published July 26, 2011

Culture

More Amazing Guild Wars 2 Art to Kickstart Your Working Week

As we’ve seen previously, with Levi Hopkins’ art, there’s some outstanding work being done at ArenaNet on Guild Wars 2. An impression that’s only reinforced looking at the contributions of Kekai Kotaki. Serving as Art Lead on the project, Kotaki – who not only has a fine last name but also worked on the first…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 25, 2011

CultureTotal Recall

The Great Half-Life 2 Robbery

Hacking attacks and digital theft have been in the headlines a lot lately, whether it be the loss of user details on the PlayStation Network or a preview build of an upcoming game. So let’s look back today on a crime both more brazen and impressive than any we’ve seen in the past few years:…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 25, 2011

Culture

Catherine the Great?

Journey into the twisted dream world of a man smitten with a beautiful girl named Catherine in the eponymous game arriving this Tuesday. Dragon Age II also gets an expansion, From Dust arrives in Xbox Live’s Summer of Arcade, and PC and PS3 players get Black Ops‘ Annihilation map pack. Tuesday Catherine (PS3, 360) —…

By Owen Good Published July 24, 2011

CultureShop Contest

Photobombed Cosplay

OK, team, if you’ve been paying attention, we’ve been hinting at this week’s ‘Shop Contest subject for the past four days. We’ve rounded up a dirty dozen of the most exploitable cosplay pics so far from Comic-Con 2011. It’s up to you to bring the more-funny! Your mission awaits inside! Our theme begins with an…

By Owen Good Published July 24, 2011

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Sunday Comics

Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published July 18. – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published July 18. – Read more of Nerf…

By Owen Good Published July 24, 2011

CultureShop Contest

Chillin’ with Chell Winners

Last week’s ‘Shop Contest served as a warmup for the cosplay explosion of San Diego Comic-Con 2011. We’ve got several entries that will be hard to follow. This week’s top 20 awaits you inside! Off the bat, Koda89 (12) came up with another animated entry that we have to present as a YouTube video. Go…

By Owen Good Published July 23, 2011

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This Week in the Business: ‘Relic of the 20th Century’

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week… QUOTE | “Superior.” – Xbox CFO Dennis Durkin contends that Microsoft’s first-party games this console cycle have been better in quality and sales than the first-party efforts of Nintendo and Sony. STAT | 40% – The percentage of the games industry that consoles now…

James Brightman | IndustryGamers.com Published July 22, 2011

CultureFine Art

Craig Mullins Is One Of The Best Artists On The Planet

Tonight's Fine Art post showcases a titan in the field

By Luke Plunkett Published July 22, 2011

CultureTotal Recall

Segata Sanshiro, the Greatest Video Game Ad Man Of Them All

Sony’s fictional executive Kevin Butler has won himself a legion of fans. Which is great! Kevin Butler, though, ain’t got shit on Segata Sanshiro. In the late 90’s Sanshiro was concocted by Sega to help sell the Sega Saturn. And there’s never been a more entertaining ad mascot for a video game company. For pretty…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 22, 2011

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This Concept Art Has a Demon’s Soul

In addition to a bunch of other stuff, Hong Kong artist Michael Ting Yu Chang has also done some video game work with Japanese developers From Software. That means he provided concept art for the sucky Ninja Blade, yes. But it also means he’s provided concept art for crushing RPG Demon’s Soul and its upcoming…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 21, 2011